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I'm afraid that sometimes, life WILL kick you into something else whether you like it or not, and whether you let it or not.

You want to be an astronaut via the fighter pilot way? Here's the rub - you need perfect 20-20 vision. Don't have it? Genetically born with poor eyesight like many people? Oops...

can always be the next best thing, rocket scientist.

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JURASSIC PARK FACTS

1. Before Michael Crichton had even finished the novel upon which the movie was based, a bidding war began, and among the directors in contention was Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhand), Joe Dante (Gremlins) and Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon). Crichton's first choice, Spielberg, won the bidding war.

2. Spielberg first learned of the existence of the Jurassic Park novel from Michael Crichton while the two were discussing a screenplay that would ultimately result in the NBC hospital drama, ER.

3. Spielberg's Schindler's List was greenlit only on the condition that Spielberg agree to direct Jurassic Park first. Spielberg did so, but left post-production work to George Lucas, while Spielberg left to begin work on Schindler's.

4. After its release, Jurassic Park's $900 million international box-office made it the highest-grossing film of all time up to that point (and until Titanic came along).

5. Both William Hurt and Harrison Ford were offered the role of Dr. Alan Grant, which Sam Neill would eventually land. Richard Dreyfuss was also considered.

6. Michael Crichton was paid $500,000 to adapt his book into a screenplay, although much of his screenplay was tossed by Malia Scotch Marmo (Hook) and David Koepp (Mission Impossible, Spider-Man), who rewrote the script.

7. Many of you may recognize the kid who played Tim Murphy (Joseph Mazzello) from The Pacific and, more recently, Justified. He had originally auditioned for Spielberg's Hook but was turned down because he was too young.


8. The iconic rippling water scene was inspired by the mirror shaking in Spielberg's car while he was listening to Earth, Wind, and Fire. The effect was created by placing the glass of water on a vibrating guitar.


9. When NBC aired Jurassic Park on television for the first time in 1995, the 65 million viewers made it the most-seen-movie on television since 1987's Trading Places.

10. The impressive special effects in Jurassic Park provided some of the inspiration for Peter Jackson to explore developing the Lord of the Rings trilogy and for George Lucas to begin work on the Star Wars prequels (sorry!).

11. Richard Kiley first played the narrator of the prerecorded park tour in the audiobook, and was subsequently hired to play the same role in the film.

12. Juliette Binoche and Robin Wright were first offered the role of Dr. Ellie Sattler, which would go to Laura Dern. Jodie Foster, Joan Cusack, Julia Roberts, Linda Hamilton, and Sarah Jessica Parker -- among others -- were also considered for the role. Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julianne Moore, and Helen Hunt all tested for the role.

13. Richard Attenborough made his first movie appearance in 15 years to play John Hammond, although that role was also offered to Sean Connery.

14. Notice the book in the gift shop. It was a book about the making of the film.


15. Jurassic Park is 127 minutes long; only 15 of those minutes actually contain footage of dinosaurs.

16. In both The Fly and Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum's characters explains that they only wear black and grey to avoid wasting time thinking about what to wear.


17. Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern became romantically attached during filming. They dated for two years.

18. The sounds made by the Dilophosaurus were a combination of howler monkeys, hawks, rattlesnakes, and swans; the Veliceratpr sounds were made by a combination of elephant seal pups, dolphins and walruses; the Tyrannosaurus' roars were a combination of dog, penguin, tiger, alligator, and elephant sounds; and the sounds made by the Brachiosaurs were a combination of whale and donkey sounds.

19. Ian Malcolm's line, "Do you mean we're extinct," is actually what the go-motion animator Phill Tippet said after seeing the new CG technology that would replace his models.

Nostradamus' Predictions


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Michel de Nostredame (aka Nostradamus) was a 16th-century French "seer." We don't have many seers these days.



Nostradamus studied astrology and various "occult" sciences and used those to predict the future.

He's best known for The Prophecies, a collection of French quatrains published in 1555. So are these prophecies worthy predictions of the future or merely vague observations retrofitted to match past events?

Here is a list of some of the most famous:

No. 01 - The End of the World
Remember when the world was going to end in 1994?

What about 1998?

Or 2000?

The doomsayers always warn that Nostradamus said the world was going to end and he NEVER GOT ANYTHING WRONG.

These days, 2012's the trendiest day for end-of-world prophecies. Specifically, it's Dec. 21, 2012.

Believe it if you want. One thing is clear: Nostradamus himself wrote that his prophecies only went as far forward as the year 3797. Does that mean the world will end late in the 38th century? Only time will tell.


No. 02 - Sept. 11, 2001
Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth

Will cause tremors around the New City.

Two great rocks will war for a long time,

Then Arethusa will redden a new river.

Well, two great rocks could be two towers, right? But would you say those towers were warring?

If you read this verse before Sept. 11, you might assume it referred to an earthquake or volcanic eruption. Earthshaking fire, tremors, rocks warring (in other words, continental plates colliding), but who really knows.

Back when Nostradamus wrote those lines, skyscrapers like the Twin Towers, jumbo jets like the ones that hit them and cities like modern-day New York were probably unthinkable and unimaginable, so if he foresaw these events, would he have even known what he was seeing?


No. 03 - . World War II/Hitler
The two greatest ones of Asia and of Africa,

From the Rhine and Lower Danube they will be said to have come,

Cries, tears at Malta and the Ligurian side.

Also ...

From the depths of the West of Europe,

A young child will be born of poor people,

He who by his tongue will seduce a great troop;

His fame will increase towards the realm of the East.

These two verses may in fact describe World War II and Hitler ... or not.

Was the most notable bit about Hitler his impoverished upbringing? What about the genocidal, megalomaniacal tendencies? Don't those deserve something? Much of the talk of Nostradamus' prophecy of Hitler may come from his use, in the original text, of the Latin word "Hister" to describe the Danube. Trust us, he was talking about a river, not a dictator: no self-respecting prophet would make such an egregious spelling error.


No. 04 - Atomic Bomb
Near the gates and within two cities

There will be scourges the like of which was never seen,

Famine within plague, people put out by steel,

Crying to the great immortal God for relief.

OK, this one is hard to dispute.

Let's face it. It's an accurate description of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Scourges the like of which was never seen," people "crying to the great immortal God."

With that said, this verse is accurate because it cheats a bit on the specifics. Critics charge that it's so vague that it could also be used to describe a whole host of wartime atrocities during any of many wars that took place between Nostradamus' time in the 16th century and today ... or even the future.


No. 05 - Louis Pasteur
The lost thing is discovered, hidden for many centuries.

Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a God-like figure.

This is when the moon completes her great cycle,

But by other rumors he shall be dishonored.

Like many surnames, Louis Pasteur's probably once indicated a profession.

Pasteur, in French, could also mean pastor, so some argue that this bit of Nostradamian prose could just be about any old priest. Others call it a shout-out to the man who studied microbial decay, brought you spoilage-resistant milk and found a vaccine for rabies.

No one doubts he deserved the props. You be the judge.


No. 06 - JFK & RFK Assassinations
The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt,

An evil deed foretold by the bearer of a petition.

According to the prediction, another falls at night time.

Conflict at Reims, London and a pestilence in Tuscany.

Thunderbolts and gunshots: not terribly dissimilar. And the great man was struck down in the day, as John F. Kennedy was. The other falling at nighttime would be Bobby Kennedy (five years later).

Now, it can work if you want it to, but do you really think a Secret Service agent reading that passage in November 1963 would have cause to be concerned?

Probably not.

And what of Reims, London and Tuscany?


No. 07 - Katrina
The cities of Tours, Orleans, Blois, Angers, Reims and Nantes

Are troubled by sudden change.

Tents will be pitched by (people) of foreign tongues;

Rivers, darts at Rennes, shaking of land and sea.

Did he really mean NEW Orleans? Hmm...The shaking of land and sea might describe the hurricane (well, the shaking of the sea would). Could the people with foreign tongues be aid workers from other parts of the world, or other parts of the country?

But what are Tours, Blois, Angers, Reims and Nantes doing there?

Pre-Katrina, this prophecy was originally thought to refer to France. Maybe it still should.



No. 08 - Princess Diana's Death
The penultimate of the surname of Prophet

Will take Diana for his day and rest:

He will wander because of a frantic head,

And delivering a great people from subjection.

OK, pay careful attention here: The father of Princess Diana's boyfriend, Dodi Al-Fayed, was named Mohamed ("the Prophet" - it wasn't his surname, but never mind that).

Did Diana's death deliver "a great people from subjection"? Maybe not, but we can all agree that the British are a great people, right? The fact alone that Diana's name is in the text speaks a lot to Nostradamus followers -- specific names are, in general, a rarity in Nostradamus' works.


No. 09 - London Fire
The blood of the just will commit a fault at London,

Burnt through lighting of twenty threes the six:

The ancient lady will fall from her high place,

Several of the same sect will be killed.

Look, just because you've never heard of the Great London Fire of 1666 doesn't mean it wasn't a really big deal.

It pretty much obliterated all of medieval London ("the ancient lady") within the old Roman walls. Only six deaths were recorded (hence "the six" in the second line), though commoners' deaths may not have been recorded at the time.

The fire, which started in a baker's shop, burned for three days straight. If only someone had passed along a copy of Nostadamus' book, maybe Londoners might have known it was coming.


No. 10 - French Revolution
"From the enslaved populace, songs,

Chants and demands

While princes and lords are held captive in prisons.

These will in the future by headless idiots

Be received as divine prayers"

You remember the French Revolution, right?

The peasants ("the enslaved populace") rising to power, the aristocracy taken down and beheaded… (the "headless idiots," now "princes and lords … held captive in prisons"). In another verse, the "great wall" falling is said to mean the storming of the Bastille.

It's a bit of a stretch, right? It's possible that Nostradamus saw the coming of a peasant uprising through completely non-astrological or occult means, but through his own eyes as he saw the contrast between aristocrat and commoner in 16th-century France.

Or not.

all too vague

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damn. lots of plagues and viruses but everyday get high then die. not a bad way to go

what is his next or future prediction?

1. Tunnel of love, Ukraine

The Tunnel of Love, located in Ukraine, used to be just another train rail section , but eventually abandoned. As trees were left to grow freely around the rails, the passing train was the only thing shaping its way through. Eventually, by crossing the Kleven village forest back and forth three times a day, the train shaped a closed tunnel according to its size. Today the Tunnel of Love is highly popular among lovers.



2. Salar de Uyuni (One of World’s Largest Mirrors), Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni is one of the world’s largest salt flats. What you are seeing below is not a layer of water, but it is actually a layer of salt that is highly reflective. The areas they occur in are former bodies of water.



3. Hitachi Seaside Park, Japan

This place does look like a scene straight out of Dr. Suess’ books. This is one of the gardens of Hitachi Seaside Park, a public park in Japan. This park covers an area of 190 hectares and the park features blooming flowers of different colors in the different parts of the park around the year.



4. Mendenhall Ice Caves, Juneau, Alaska

These Ice Caves are located inside the Mendenhall Glacier of Juneau, Alaska. Its entrance is just right up on the side of the glacier near where it meets the water. The access is pretty dependent on things like time of year, movement of the glacier, etc.



5. Red Beach, Panjin, China

The Red Beach is located in the Liaohe River Delta of Panjin City in China. Its flaming red appearance is caused by a type of sea weed that flourishes in the saline-alkali soil. The weed starts growing during April or May and remains green during the summer. In autumn, this weed turns flaming red, and the beach looks as if it was covered by an infinite red carpet that creates a rare red sea landscape.



6. Zhangye Danxia Geological Park, Gansu Province, China

The incredibly colorful “rainbow mountains” are part of the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu, China. The rainbow mountains became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010. The vivid mountains are the result of mineral deposits and red sandstone from over 24 million years ago. Layers formed on top of one another, creating the colorful patterns of rock strata.



7. Mount Roraima, Venezuela

Mount Roraima, one of the oldest formations on Earth, is a natural border between Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana in South America. It is also called Roraima Tepui or Cerro Roraima. Mount Roraima was the inspiration for the setting of the Pixar film “Up.” The plateau is so large that it can hold enough water to keep the waterfalls running uninterrupted.



8. Tianzi Mountains, China

Found in the Hunan province of China, the unique views from atop the Tianzi Mountains can only be accessed by cable car. These mountains were the inspiration for the Avatar’s floating mountains.



9. Black Forest, Germany

Black Forest gets its name from its dark, slightly sinister canopy of evergreens. The vast expanse of hills, valleys, rivers and forests stretch from the swish spa town of Baden-Baden to the Swiss border, and from the Rhine almost to Lake Constance.



10. Lake Hillier, Australia

The vibrant Lake Hillier is located in the Middle Island in the Recherche Archipelago, in Western Australia. The lake spans only about 600 meters wide but its rose pink colour is unmistakable. Pink lakes tend to have a striking colour due to the presence of algae that produces carotenoids, such as Dunaliella Salina, a type of halophile green micro-algae especially found in sea salt fields. Once the lake water reaches a salinity level greater than that of sea water, the temperature is high enough and adequate light conditions are provided, the alga begins to accumulate the red pigment beta carotene.

11. The Faroe Islands, Denmark

Sørvágsvatn (or Leitisvatn) is the biggest lake of the Faroe Islands, situated on the island of Vágar. It covers an area of 3.4 square km, more than three times the size of the second biggest lake Fjallavatn, which also lies on the island of Vágar. This picture you see is actually an optical illusion. It appears as if the lake is significantly higher than the ocean. In real, the lake is only 30 meter above the sea level, but the cliff facing the camera is 100 meters high. The position of the camera and the angle of the shot makes it seem like the lake is about the same level as the cliff.



12. Sutherland Falls in New Zealand

Sutherland Falls is a waterfall near Milford Sound in the Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. Amongst the tallest waterfalls in the world, it has a steep slope. Sutherland Falls are fed by a small circular lake, named Lake Quill, which occupies a small rock basin that was formed by ice-action during the Ice Age, and spills almost directly down a near-vertical mountain-wall into a valley. Its most beautiful angle is taken from above on a helicopter flight, when you can see the lake behind the waterfall framed with snow-capped mountains in the cold seasons.



13. Tuscany, Italy

In the central Italy lies the beautiful region of Tuscany, a place that is home to cities such as Arezzo, Grosseto, Livorno, Lucca, Massa Carrara, Pisa, Pistoia, Prato, Siena, Chianti, Florence Casentino and its capital. The Tuscany region is crossed by mountain ranges, so there are few flat plains, but they are particularly fertile and extremely beautiful.



14. Trolltunga Cliff, Norway

Trolltunga is one of the most spectactular scenic cliffs in Norway. Trolltunga is situated about 1100 meters above sea level, hovering 700 metres above lake Ringedalsvatnet in Skjeggedal. The view is breathtaking. The hike goes through high mountains, takes 8-10 hours in total (to Trolltunga and return) and the ascent is about 900 meters.



15. Carrera Lake, Argentina And Chile

Marble Caves Chile Chico located on the border of Chile and Argentina is one of the most beautiful places of our planet. The primitive beauty of the marble rocks, combined with the crystal clear water of the Lago General Carrera mountain lake makes one believe, that heaven does exist, and it is somewhere in this place. Marble Caves are the most famous attraction of Patagonia (Chile). These caves attract a lot of tourists from the different corners of the globe.



16. Ice Towers on Mount Erebus, Antarctica

Hundreds of ice towers are located on Mount Erebus (height 3800 m above sea level) look like a one-day stubble on the face of the giant. A constantly active volcano, and probably the only place in Antarctica where fire and ice meet, interacting to and create something unique, encompassing both their natures. Towers can reach up to 20 meters in height and look almost alive as they produce jets of steam into the south polar sky. Part of the volcanic vapor freezes in the inner parts of the towers, increasing their breadth and height.



17. Fingal’s Cave, Scotland

Located on the island of Staffa, Scotland, Fingal’s Cave, also known as “Uamh-Binn” in Gaelic (meaning “cave of melody”), is well-known for its arching, cathedral-like geological features and emanating eerie sounds. The cave, along with the entire island of Staffa, is composed entirely of hexagonal basalt columns, which produces the naturally arched ceiling. The easiest way to see this awe-inspiring cave for yourself is to take a sightseeing cruise from the town of Mull. The cruises land close to the cave, and the hexagonal basalt columns serve as perfect stepping stones to walk along the shore and enter the cave.



18. Great Blue Hole, Belize

The Great Blue hole, located just 100 kilometers (60 miles) off the coast of Belize, is an underwater sinkhole that researchers believe is the largest of its kind. Circular in shape and characterized by its rich, blue color, it is over 300 meters (984 ft) across and 125 meters (410 ft) deep. It lies in the center of an atoll called Lighthouse Reef, where an island of coral encircles the shallow, light turquoise-colored waters of a lagoon. Water levels there are so shallow that parts of the ring surrounding the dark blue sinkhole are even known to crest the surface at low tide.



19. Pamukkale, Turkey

Pamukkale, 19 km (12 miles) north of Denizli (map), is Turkey’s foremost mineral-bath spa because of its natural beauty: hot calcium-laden waters spring from the earth and cascade over a cliff. As they cool they form dramatic travertines of hard, brilliantly white calcium that form pools. Pamukkale (“cotton fortress”) has been a spa since the Romans built the spa city of Hierapolis around a sacred warm-water spring. The Sacred Pool is still there, littered with marble columns from the Roman Temple of Apollo. You can swim in it for a fee.



20. Fraser Island Dune, Australia

Fraser Island lies just off the east coast of Australia. At 122 km long, it is the largest sand island in the world. Majestic remnants of tall rainforest growing on sand and half the world’s perched freshwater dune lakes are found inland from the beach. The combination of shifting sand-dunes, tropical rainforests and lakes makes it an exceptional site.

21. Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

The waters flowing over the limestone and chalk have, over thousands of years, deposited travertine barriers, creating natural dams which in turn have created a series of beautiful lakes, caves and waterfalls. These geological processes continue today. The forests in the park are home to bears, wolves and many rare bird species.



22. Baatara Gorge Waterfall, Lebanon

The Baatara Gorge Waterfall is located in the village of Balaa, between the cities of Laqlouq and Tannourine, Lebanon. The location is also known as the “Three Bridges Chasm”. This unexpected waterfall drops 255 metres (837 ft.) into a cave and falls behind three natural bridges, which raise one above the other and overhang the chasm descending into Mount Lebanon. It can only be seen during the months of March and April, when the snows are melting.



23. Seven Sisters Waterfall, Norway

The Seven Sisters are definitely the most famous waterfalls in the Geiranger Fjord. It consists of several columns of water and that’s how this waterfall got its name. While all seven of them can’t be seen all th time and perhaps it all depends on the amount of snowmelt or rain. The Seven Sisters are actually directly across from another waterfall called Friaren. Naturally with this waterfall being one of the highlights of a Geiranger Fjord Tourist Cruise, you’re practically guaranteed to see it once you crowd into such a tour.



24. Nubra Valley, Ladakh, India

From Leh, a rough road runs north over the awesome Khardung La, the highest motorable pass in the world. Even in summer, the crossing is crusted in permafrost. Beyond the pass is the wide, flat Nubra Valley, crisscrossed by the winding channels of the Shyok and Nubra Rivers.



25. Waitomo Glowworm Caves, New Zealand

The Waitomo Glowworm Caves attraction is a cave at Waitomo on the North Island of New Zealand, known for its population of glowworms, Arachnocampa luminosa. This species is found exclusively in New Zealand. They are around the size of an average mosquito. Geological and volcanic activity has created around 300 known limestone caves in the Waitomo region over the last 30 million years.



26. Glass Beach, Mendocino, California

Glass Beach is a unique beach, not because nature made it that way, but because time and the pounding surf have corrected one of man’s mistakes. In the early 20th century, Fort Bragg residents threw their household garbage over the cliffs above what is now Glass Beach. It is hard to imagine this happening today, but back then people dumped all kinds of refuse straight into the ocean, including old cars, and their household garbage, which of course included lots of glass. Beginning in 1949, the area around Glass Beach became a public dump, and locals referred to it as “The Dumps.” Sometimes fires were lit to reduce the size of the trash pile, however in 1967, the city leaders closed the area. Over the next several decades the pounding waves cleansed the beach, wearing down the discarded glass into the small, smooth, colored trinkets that cover the beach today.



27. Rio Secreto underground river in Riviera Maya, Mexico

Rio Secreto is a new tourist attraction in the Riviera Maya that thrills visitors with a visit to a natural underground river and the limestone cavern system it winds through. Discovered in 2007, the cave is part of a 7.5-mile long network that is still being explored and mapped. Most underground river networks such as these are limited to trained spelunkers, since there are sections completely underwater that require diving equipment.



28. Multicolored Lakes of Mount Kelimutu, Indonesia

Long considered a sacred spot and final resting place for departed souls, the multicolored lakes of the Kelimutu volcano are among the most incredible wonders of the world. Though the three lakes are all on the crest of the same volcano, and two even share a crater wall, they are all different colors. A quick peek at Wikipedia entry on Kelimutu will tell you that “…the colour changes as a result of chemical reactions resulting from the minerals contained in the lake perhaps triggered by volcano gas activity.”



29. Berry Head Arch, Canada

This magnificent sea arch is located on the Spurwink Trail, along the East Coast Trail. To get to the arch, find the East Coast Trail trailhead at Port Kirwan. From here, it is about a 4.75-mile one way hike to the arch. The hike is moderate but extreme caution is required at points where the trail skirts the edge of some rather high cliffs.



30. Yingxi corridor of stone peaks of Qingyuan, China

The YingXi Corridor in China is just one more of the fascinating locations that tourists are now enjoying after the many years of Chinese isolation. The corridor is filled with limestone peaks that tower above the waterways and fields of the region. Some of the massive limestone peaks appear to be shoved out of the ground by tremendous forces from below.

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3 hours of reading and im only on page 9.

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